Top 40 Broken Heart Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”

— Johnny Depp

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2. “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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3. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

— Rumi

4. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

— Oscar Wilde

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5. “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”

— Bruce Lee

6. “Don’t fix what’s not broken.”

— Robert Atkins

7. “Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

8. “Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

— John Steinbeck

9. “To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.”

— Frank Frankfort Moore

10. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

— Warren Buffett

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11. “I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

12. “There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

13. “I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”

— L.M. Montgomery

14. “Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”

— Antonio Porchia

15. “The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.”

— Caroline Myss

16. “It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

— George Bernard Shaw

17. “Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”

— Homer

18. “The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.”

— Hillary Clinton

19. “Maybe there’s a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.”

— Leonard Cohen

20. “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”

— Drew Barrymore

21. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

— Mark Twain

22. “Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.”

— Bette Midler

23. “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.”

— Pearl S. Buck

24. “Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”

— Johnny Depp

25. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

— James Baldwin

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26. “The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

27. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

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28. “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

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29. “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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30. “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

— James Russell Lowell

31. “If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

32. “It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?”

— George Michael

33. “Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

— Jonathan Swift

34. “It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.”

— Allen Ginsberg

35. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

— Khalil Gibran

36. “You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

— Rumi

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37. “Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.”

— Ernest Hemingway

38. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

— Dylan Thomas

39. “The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”

— Dorothy Parker

40. “Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong